Gender Split for Debate Moderators New York Times (blog) The announcement followed an unusual period of public scrutiny because only one woman, Carole Simpson, had moderated a presidential debate in the quarter-century that the commission has been holding them.

Kerry Healey Launches Drive to Elect WomenNewsMax.com “It’s been wonderful for us, as a party, to have Sarah Palin out there and Michele Bachmann out there representing conservative women. But there are so many who I speak to on a daily basis who would be wonderful spokespeople on any number of issues…

Concerned Women for America stop in Missoula to register voters The Missoulian “The point of it is to get women registered to vote, identify like-minded conservative voters, and turn them out in November,” organization spokeswoman Alice Stewart said Monday. “This is a critical election year, not just for the White House, but you…

Campaigning for the votes of single women Minnesota Public Radio President Barack Obama attempted to make a strong appeal to women voters during a campaign swing in Colorado last week, where GOP challenger Mitt Romney also campaigned. Single women voters – a fast growing demographic – are especially…

It’s Time for CNN’s Political Gut Check CNN (blog) All year, Romney has faced a gender gap among upscale white women rooted in social issues; some more recent polls (particularly in battleground states) also show some movement toward Obama among the waitress moms, those non-college white women…

200 women voters rally for Obama in Southfield The Detroit News Close to 200 women turned out Sunday afternoon for the Michigan Women’s Vote 2012 Summit to mobilize female Obama supporters and highlight what’s at stake for women in this year’s election.

The appearance of gender politics newjerseynewsroom.com Hillary Clinton is certainly not the only female politician to have her appearance attract media attention in this war over gender politics. More favorable and aesthetically pleasing comments rack up for former Republican Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin …

White males are buying a false ‘self-made’ tale Columbus Dispatch …White men have been fed the myth of the rags-to-riches, self-made man, the quintessential American narrative that says hard work and perseverance will equate to success. The idea cemented in the male cerebral cortex is that people who start from nothing can work themselves from the Horatio Alger mailroom to the corner office.

Women Key Voting Bloc for Obama and RomneyU.S. News & World Report (blog) Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are pulling out all the stops to appeal to women voters, who could be the key to victory in the presidential election. Republican strategists say Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, is focusing on married and …

What Do Women Voters Want? NewsMax.com President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday trying to solidify his lead among women, appearing at rallies with Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who made headlines when Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut”…

The female vote in NovemberOneNewsNow Crouse believes most women have serious concerns about the direction of the nation, but sees it as ironic that more than half of evangelical women are not registered to vote.

Lieutenant governor candidate says women must fight extremismnwitimes.com GARY | There is a war on women not only in Washington, D.C., but in Indianapolis, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor said Friday. Senate Democratic Leader Vi Simpson, D-Ellettsville, said a line has to be drawn in the sand today

Ann Coulter Is a Female Misogynist Gather.com Maybe it’s time for Coulter to quit fermenting those coveted conservative eggs and quit being a “stupid single woman” herself, if she’s so able. Since she hates single women (really, just women in general) she should just do herself and her party’s …Canada:

No men allowed at Christy Clark’s women-only events The Province The breakfast was one of a series of women-only events Clark has held around B.C. as the governing Liberals watch their support plunge among women voters. I’m told the man who was booted out of the breakfast meeting is embarrassed by the whole thing…

Women-only events may backfire for ChristyThe Province The last Angus Reid poll pegs Liberal support among women at a minuscule 15 per cent, compared with 53 per cent of women who say they sup-port Adrian Dix and the NDP. That is a stunning 38-point advantage for the NDP among women voters, and it has …

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